17 things to be thankful for in technology

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Editor's Note: Technobabble is our occasional series looking at the more colorful sides of technology, including research-based musings that illustrate the CIO Dive Editorial Teams case for the future HQ2 location. Please enjoy this Thanksgiving themed edition.

It's the season to give thanks and count the blessings in your life.

Recent headlines make it easy to dwell on cybersecurity failures, but the technology industry gave us so much to be thankful for this year. From hooking a brain up to a computer to flying car contracts to unlocking phones with our faces, technology constantly pushes the bounds of what is believed to be possible.

No one knows how to give thanks like Jimmy Fallon, and CIO Dive is taking a leaf out of his book and writing thank you notes to the business technology sphere:

Thank you for continuing to lead other sectors in worker compensation and reminding the rest of us that we could be making half a million dollars as an AI specialist if only we had picked a different major in college.

3. Thank you, blockchain.

4. Thank you, Elon.

Thank you for giving us our daily dose of robot skepticism in preparation for the coming AI apocalypse. And, of course, for taking us to Mars, furthering non-profit AI research and letting us halfheartedly chuckle at your Boring Company one too many times.

On the list of people who should absolutely *not* be allowed to develop digital superintelligence...https://t.co/reNZ50FGNC

Thank you for serving as the unsung hero of federal IT. You're not afraid to call out government technology shortcomings. And your intelligence industry knowledge makes you an ideal candidate to help drive thenext force in tech, Y2Q — years to quantum.

9. Thank you, millennials.

Without your addiction to cell phones and unrelenting need for social acceptance, communication platforms may not have found their way into the enterprise. Being social successfully translated to bothintercompany and intracompany collaboration.

10. Thank you, Amazon Web Services.

Thank you for keeping S3 online through thick and thin (except for that brief hiccup in February). Because, honestly, without S3 the internet is toast.

13. Thank you, Windows 10.

Thank you for not falling prey to WannaCry when older versions of the OS could not withstand the malware attack. Even when your rapid update cycle proves trying, for security’s sake we appreciate updates that don’t rely on user execution.